“Pandu, having obtained that virtuous son(Yudhishthir), Afterwards again addressed his wife &
said, The wise have declared that a Kshatriya must be endued
with physical strength, otherwise he is no Kshatriya. Therefore, ask
for an offspring of superior strength. Thus commanded by her lord, Kunti then invoked VayuDev. And the mighty god of wind, thus
invoked, came unto her, riding upon a deer, and said, What do you want
Kunti? Tell me, what is in your heart !’
Smiling in modesty, she told him, ‘Give me, a child endued with great strength and largeness of limbs and capable
of humbling the pride of everybody!’ The god of wind thereupon
begat upon her the child afterwards known as Bhima of mighty arms
and fierce prowess. And upon the birth of that child endued with
extraordinary strength, an incorporeal voice as before, said,
This child shall be the foremost of all endued with strength,
1 must tell you, O Bharata, of another wonderful event that occurred
after the birth of Vrikodara (Bhima), While he fell from the lap of
his mother upon the mountain breast, the violence of the fall broke
into fragments the stone upon which he fell without his infant body
being injured in the least. And he fell from his mother’s lap because
Kunti, frightened by a tiger, had risen up suddenly, unconscious
of the child that lay asleep on her lap. And as she had risen, the infant,
of body hard as the thunderbolt, falling down upon the mountain
breast, broke into a hundred fragments the rocky mass upon which
he fell. And beholding this, Pandu wondered much. And it so
happened that that very day on which Vrikodara was born, was also the birthday of Duryyodhana who afterwards
became the ruler of the whole Earth.